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UniversoMagico

#UMPlus - Giant Cosmic Webs

universomagico.net/2025/03/red

This beautiful structure, composed of clouds and filaments, is located in the southern constellation of Vela and lies about 800 light-years from Earth. It is all that remains of a massive star that died in a powerful explosion known as a supernova. The image is a small part of a larger image taken with the.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

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Universo Mágico

#UMPlus - Giant Cosmic Webs

universomagico.net/2025/03/red

This beautiful structure, composed of clouds and filaments, is located in the southern constellation of Vela and lies about 800 light-years from Earth. It is all that remains of a massive star that died in a powerful explosion known as a supernova. The image is a small part of a larger image taken with the.....
#astronomy #space #astrophysics #astrophotography

Giant Cosmic Webs
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SecondUniverse

All my telescopes are packed away in preparation for a big move, and of course since then we have had a run of perfectly clear nights. I only have my mobile phone handy so I thought I would try capture an animation of Mars drifting past the bright stars Castor and Pollux over the past week. Castor and Pollus are the brightest stars of the constellation Gemini. Aligned manually (and very imperfectly)in Gimp #transJoy #astronomy #astrophotography

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Jeff
This was taken a few months ago when we still had snow on the spruce trees.

Normally in Fairbanks we dont get a lot of snow. The storms that dump snow along the coast and partial interior mountain ranges usually have very little left by the time they reach the interior. What it does give us is cold temps and clear skies, which is perfect for holding the little snow we do get, and having great aurora viewing.

This winter started out normal, but over the past few months we have had consistent warm temperatures and wind, which has removed all the snow from our usually laden trees.

I always am on the lookout for aurora images using terrestrial nature as a foreground, up here that is mainly trees. So when I discovered this little pocket a few meters away from my winter cabin when I moved in, I was ecstatic.

Le getting a corona framed directly overhead of this pocket was another thing. Since I’m out on tours I rarely have time to do any shooting at my house. And usually when I do I get so caught up in the moment, that by the time I realize it would be a good view from “the spruce pocket”, it’s too late. But on this night I was ready for it and wow what a show. Personally this is one of my favorite images from this winter as it is the culmination of a lot of planning and patience.

Sony a7iii 20mm, 4” 1600iso f/1.8 touched up in affinity

#aurora #northernlights #auroraborealis #alaska #astrophotography #winter #lookup #sonyalpha #stars #nightsky #winterwonderland #nature #neonlights
#neonlights
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ESO

Check out these pics to catch one last glimpse of Saturn's rings before they "disappear" from view for a while! 🪐 🤩

On 23 March, the Earth's orbit will cross the plane of the rings, making the majestic rings appear edge-on from our perspective. Since Saturn will be positioned very close to the Sun in the sky, it won’t be possible to observe it as the Earth crosses the plane. ⁠The rings will then become visible again in September this year.

Courtesy of ESO astronomer Abigail Frost, these images were captured in early January through the Nasmyth A focus of Unit Telescope 1 at our Very Large Telescope (VLT) in #Chile .

An image of Saturn against a blue sky, observed through a telescope. Saturn appears as a small yellowish disk, crossed diagonally by a thin line, which is in fact Saturn's rings seen almost edge on. The blue sky is partially blocked by various circular and straight shadows of the telescope's mirrors and its support structures.
An image of Saturn against a blue sky, observed through a telescope. Saturn appears as a small yellowish disk, crossed diagonally by a thin line, which is in fact Saturn's rings seen almost edge on. The blue sky is partially blocked by various circular and straight shadows of the telescope's mirrors and its support structures.
An image of Saturn against a blue sky, observed through a telescope. Saturn appears as a small yellowish disk, crossed diagonally by a thin line, which is in fact Saturn's rings seen almost edge on. The blue sky is partially blocked by various circular and straight shadows of the telescope's mirrors and its support structures.
An image of Saturn against a blue sky, observed through a telescope. Saturn appears as a small yellowish disk, crossed diagonally by a thin line, which is in fact Saturn's rings seen almost edge on. The blue sky is partially blocked by various circular and straight shadows of the telescope's mirrors and its support structures.
#astrodon#astronomy#astrophotography
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Jeff
In my off season this past fall, I decided to go to Kauai and go backpacking all over the island. Coming from Alaska it was quite pleasant to wear shorts constantly and have good fresh fruit everywhere you went. While I was camping on the west side of the island I decided to pull the camera out and get some Milky Way shots. What I totally forgot about was the #comet C/2023 A3 passing by our planet.

The hooting and hollering that I made when I first looked at the image could be heard for miles.

The upper part of the cloud is lit up from the moon rising behind the island creating a very pleasing image.
I am shooting this on a #sony A7iii with a 20mm f1.8 lens. 30” exposure, iso 1250

#milkyway #astrophotography #comet #sonyalpha #kauai #hawaii #beaches #nightsky #ocean #nature #hiking #camping
#camping
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